Scientists of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) say they discovered a particle that may be the Higgs boson.

The organization announced in a statement Wednesday that new data in their search for the particle is "consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson.”

CERN spent ten billion dollars to build a 27-kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider in an underground laboratory located at the Switzerland-France border to search for the Higgs boson and to gain insight into the Big Bang theory.

Dubbed the “God particle,” the Higgs boson is considered as the last missing piece of the puzzle needed to complete the Standard Model of Particle Physics.